Monday, March 31, 2014

Many of them or the racists obviously
don't know who they are. The reactionaries don’t want to live in the past (or mention the past),
because they want to ignore the past (as a means to diminish the suffering,
pain, and interests of BLACK PEOPLE). It is the arrogance of white
reactionaries that is truly shameful. The Brother named John Henry, David
Jones, and others have proven scientifically the genetic ties between white
people and Neanderthals. It is the faux superiority complex of them (or white racists) that should
be opposed by any black person. They or white racists are definitely jealous of
our black melanin, our fighting spirit, and our heroes (like Martin Delaney,
Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, John Henrik Clarke, Harriet Tubman, Ella Baker,
etc.). We know about our history from the Kingdoms of West Africa to the great
scientific scholars among our people in the 21st century. The Black Panthers
had weaknesses, but they were strong, dedicated, intelligent, and heroic Brothers and Sisters who fought
oppression. The original Black Panthers were a key part of the overall Black
Liberation Movement. They were created during the 1960’s. They instituted
legitimate programs like educational programs, health care services, community
patrols to watch and monitor the police (and avaricious dope dealers who wanted
to exploit those suffering drug addiction), and organizing tenants, etc. Their
10 Point programs have principles that are relevant in our time. Their programs
had popular support and dealt with community building. The BPP were heavily
opposed to fascism. We need community building a radical redistribution of
economic and political power as a means to see revolutionary, social change in
the word. The Black Panthers outlined a revolutionary analysis of the
happenings of the world. Their breakfast programs helped many children. In
parts of New York City, Black Panthers were successful in driving dope dealers
out of some neighborhoods. It was required to be educated on revolutionary
thinking as a prerequisite for someone to join the Black Panther Party. So, we
should be anti-oppression, anti-imperialism, and pro-freedom. There are
geniuses in all races including black people. The Afro-British Imafidon family is known as
the smartest family in the U.K. The youngest siblings, Peter and Paula, made
history by becoming the youngest students to enroll in secondary school. Their
older sister, Anne-Marie, was the youngest student to pass A-level computing at
the age of 13. That family is black. The Sister Autum Ashante was accepted into
the University of Connecticut at the age of 13. The FBI with their COINTELPRO
propaganda program slandered the Black Panthers collectively as a criminal
enterprise when they were opposed to capitalism and economic exploitation. One
article by one of the NY 21 Panthers was entitled, “Capitalism + Dope =
Genocide.” The Panthers were right that the CIA was involved in drug running in
a long time and that the FBI used abhorrent policies that violated the human
civil liberties of people across backgrounds. Also, it is great to study the
words and literature from Fanon, Malcolm X, Bobby Seale, Huey, Angela Davis
(who believed that prisons are obsolete now in our contemporary society), Kwame
Ture, Nkrumah, Jamal Joseph, Michelle Alexander, Marshall Eddy Conway, and
others. These human beings give insights into the psychology of an oppressive
system. The oppressive system deals with mass imprisonment of our Brothers and
our Sisters, the War on Drugs, economic exploitation, imperialism, and other
forms of bigotry common in the world. So, we are going to understand the past,
live in the present, and fight for a better future for our people.

Synagogues have been
destroyed, the rights of Russian speaking people have been violated, and other
abhorrent measures have occurred by the fascist, puppet regime in Kiev. It is a
positive update that at least President Obama and Vladimir Putin are at least
talking. Putin is not perfect, but he is neither Hitler nor Mussolini either.
Real folks want this crisis to be resolved in a peaceful fashion, but I will
never recognize that fascist state (that came about as a product of a slick putsch)
in Kiev at all. Only a hypocrite would claim to love democracy but back a
fascist influenced Kiev government. Many leaders of that puppet regime have
fascist and Neo-Nazi ties. John Brennan told a senior lawmaker on Feb. 28 that
a 1997 treaty between Russia and Ukraine allows up to 25,000 Russia troops in
the Crimea region, the Los Angeles Times reported on March 3. "The number
of Russian troops that have surged into Ukraine in recent days remains well
below that threshold, Brennan said, according to U.S. officials who declined to
be named...." Crimean independence is a welcomed development. Self-determination
is a human right and Crimean human beings voted for their independence via a peaceful referendum (They did not use violence against civilians or passed evil laws at
all unlike the fascists in Kiev did). Imperialism under any cloak is evil. I
wish for Ukraine & Crimea to be independent and free. Malcolm X gave
huge respect to Fannie Lou Hamer, Gloria Richardson, and other Sisters in the
struggle. Fannie Lou Hamer was courageous and worked diligently to oppose the
Vietnam War, she fought against poverty, and she worked to advance the concept
of cooperatives in American society. Ella Baker was the Mother of SNCC. Fannie
Lou Hamer allied with Malcolm X as a means to advance liberation for black
people. Malcolm X became more progressive on issues of women than even Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was as others have mentioned before. When Malcolm X
traveled in Africa and other locations, he transformed and expanded his
fundamental understanding of the world. Brother Malcolm posed with Shirley
Graham DuBois in Accra, Ghana. Both of them agreed with a pan-Africanist agenda
that desired women to achieve education and true human dignity. Therefore, we
have every right to advance anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and
anti-capitalism. As Malcolm X said: "...It is impossible for capitalism to
survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck.
Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it’s more like a vulture and can
only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free
themselves, then capitalism has less and less victims, less to suck, and it
becomes weaker and weaker. It’s only a matter of time in my opinion before it
will collapse completely.”(Malcolm X, January 18, 1965 in the Young Socialist
Magazine). Fannie Lou Hamer passed away in 1977. RIP to her.

I listened to the Sister
Yandy Smith’s speech about health care as a means to witness her words. I am a
fair man, so I listened to her views. Bless her and her family. The ACA was a
compromise between those who loved the status quo and those who wanted
supremely universal health care. The current ACA law was heavily influenced by
corporate lobbyists (as the Heritage Foundation originated a lot of the ACA’s
compositions) and by the leaders of the health insurance industries. Many
people will benefit from the law while others will struggle still. The ACA is
not the smoking gun. It is the beginning and a step. Every industrialized
nation in the world has universal health care but America. Margaret Flowers, MD
has great research on this issue and she advocates a single payer system, which
I have no issues with. Health care is a human right since improving our health
is a key part of living life in the highest potential possible. So, we should
continue to fight for the final goal, which is universal health care. There is one study (from a a new Wallet Hub report) alone documents the hypocrisy, deception, and extremist nature of the
leadership of the GOP. The numerous statistics are not misleading since it
documents how many Red States rely heavily on federal government funding. These
states can reject federal government funding and use policies to not pay more
in federal taxes, but they don’t. The Tea Party/GOP clique always lecture human
beings on federal government sending, but their greatest supporters rely on
potent federal government aid (including social programs like Social Security,
Medicaid, Medicare, etc.) heavily. They talk about the poor receiving welfare,
but ignore welfare given to the super wealthy in the form of tax breaks,
bailouts, and other giveaways (in a record level). Wall Street has received
record profits. They ignore how corporate corruption & lax regulation
not the government alone caused the BP and West Virginia environmental
disasters. They regularly and continually ignore solutions that can decrease
the poverty rate in America from instituting an increase of the minimum wage
(that most Americans support), the establishment of a guaranteed annual income,
ending imperialism, and a comprehensive, jobs program that can create jobs via
public investment. The social safety net has every right to be maintained since
many parts of it from Social Security to Medicare has benefited the lives of
millions of America for decades (we have the stats to prove it). So, I will
never be a Republican at all. I believe in workers’ rights, I believe in
establishing a clean environment, and I believe in protecting human civil
liberties.

Kobe Bryant's
commentaries were interesting to say the least. When the Heat players and
others were wearing hoodies and supporting Trayvon Martin’s family, they were
not rejecting the right of political diversity among the black community. They
were not demonizing black people who embraced alternative points of view. They
were allying with a grieving mother, a grieving father, and a grieving family.
Even vicious racists disrespected Trayvon Martin’s family before. Yet, Kobe
says nothing about that and he said nothing about other ethnic groups too. If
he said similar words about Hispanics, Jewish people, and others among other
backgrounds, he would be heavily criticized by those human beings. So, human
beings have every right to support the human dignity of Trayvon Martin. His
life had value. Kobe never said those words about his own legal plight years
ago either, which is very ironic. Those of goodwill use the tragic death of
Trayvon Martin as a means to strongly oppose extrajudicial murder of black
humanity, to oppose police brutality, and to build more in our own communities.
That is the essential point of the matter. We have the right to help each
other, to respect each other, and to ally with each other as black people.
African Americans have a strong legacy. African Americans are made up of human
beings that fought for civil rights, that instituted massive technological and
scientific achievements, and believed in true dignity. Anybody that denigrates
AAs is an ignorant person point blank period. Many of the youth face real,
significant challenges. We are not naive about the shadiness of individuals who
desire to exploit the youth for nefarious purposes. Materialism and selfishness
are common evils present among the youth and others in the human race. Some fail
to witness that legitimate investments in your community (that can improve the
community) will yield much greater long term benefit than immediate, selfish
social gratification. You are right that we should never aid any person that
looks down or has irrational, bigoted hatred of black people. Some of the youth
should not be naive about the actions of the oppressor. The oppressor can
change stripes, but their goal is still the same (which is the exploitation,
control, harm, etc. of black people). Many of the youth are doing the right
thing and those who are doing what is right ought to be acknowledged and
respected. You are again correct to call for the need to build in our black
community and to advocate economic justice too. No man can be free unless all
women are free. No woman is free unless all men are free too. Both genders in
our people must experience justice as a means for the black community to
experience liberation.

There are Detroit
water cutoffs and the social counterrevolution in America. Detroit is situated
alongside the largest surface freshwater system in the world. The authorities
have begun a shutoff of water services. This will target 3,000 households every
week for the next several months. If these plans are fully implemented, then it
could cause tens of thousands of families will no longer have access to one of
the most fundamental necessities of life (that being water). This expresses the cruelty and
irrationality of capitalism. This is a blatant social crime and those responsible
are criminals. The DWSD or the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department is setting
its sights on those who are delinquent on their bills. Nearly 50 percent of all
accounts (or 150,000 out of 324,000) fall into this category. This is a city
where more than a third of the population lives below the poverty line. The
consequences of this policy will be harmful. It will increase the hardship of
disease, death, etc. Families will be forced to live without basic sanitation
or choose between running water (and other necessities like food, clothing, and
health care). A lack of access to running means an inability to shower, use the
toilet, cook, or take medications. It can lead to buildings or homes to be
condemned, which will force residents into the streets. Breakup of families can
come. Children are shifted to relatives or removed by the state on charges of
neglect. Like the cutoff of gas or electricity—a mass phenomenon in Detroit—a
water shutoff is a destabilizing, debilitating and psychologically devastating experience.
Detroit once boasted the highest per capita income in the country as a former
center of manufacturing in America. Historically, access to water was seen as a
benchmark of social progress. It was considered a national disgrace that, in
1950, a quarter of the population (and half of the rural population) did not
have access to plumbing. This act in Detroit is a damning indictment of
American capitalism and the corporate and financial elite that runs the
country. There have been government programs along with a general increase in
living standards that have established plumbing for the vast majority of
Americans. Still, there are about 2 million Americans who have insufficient or
no running water. The cost of water for consumers was kept low as a matter of
policy. Most water companies were set up as public utilities, subsidized by
local and federal government spending. There were gains of the working class in
the post-World War II period. There advances came directly or indirectly by
social struggle. For more than three decades, there has been a systematic
effort by the ruling class to turn back the clock. This massive retrogression
since the financial crisis of 2008 has turned into a social counterrevolution.
This counterrevolution targets the jobs and wages of the working class. The financial and political elite has slashed spending on social infrastructure. A recent report by the
Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute noted: “Historically, federal and state
governments would cover some long-term costs in the form of infrastructure
grants. Since the 1980s, however, these grants have given way to infrastructure
loans, pushing water systems to charge their customers full-cost, or near
full-cost, rates.” (“Tapped Out: Threats to the Human Right to Water in the
Urban United States”). Between 2000 and 2012, water rates in Detroit increased
a shocking 119 percent. Over the same period, median household income in the
city declined by about 15 percent. Today, the average monthly water bill in the
city is $75 ($900 a year)—or about 3.5 percent of the median income. Regressive
changes have caused this reality in Detroit. Water rates have surged nationwide
in the past 10 years, more than doubling in a quarter of the 100 cities
surveyed. Corporate interests want to exploit water resources. Big investors and
bondholders finance public utilities. Many who can’t pay for services will see
their rates increase. Privatization is growing in Detroit. After undermining
the finances of the city through the shutdown of auto production, predatory
bank loans, tax abatements and other corporate handouts, and massive cuts in
state and federal financial aid, the ruling class wants more real estate
speculators to handle its infrastructure (while the working class are forced to
leave the city). The privatization of resources and restructuring of the world
is one big goal of the elite. The evil of capitalism is that it is based on
private profit and the subordination of every social right to the rapacious
dictates of the corporate and financial aristocracy. Water shutoffs should be
opposed in Detroit. The water system in Detroit should be controlled by real
public ownership.

Kwame Ture and Dr. King
were allies and friends. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. always respected Kwame Ture
as a young Brother. They expressed disagreements, but these disagreements were
in the realm of spirited debate excluding personal tensions. It is like I may
have some a disagreement with my blood Brother in real life, but that is still
my Brother and I respect my Brother. That analogy holds true among Brothers
Kwame Ture and Dr. King. Both men agreed to oppose the Vietnam War on moral,
legal, and philosophical grounds. Both said that the Vietnam War was an
expression of imperialism by Western forces and it was an affront to the
anti-colonial, revolutionary movements of the world. Now, even after 1969,
Kwame Ture still was involved in revolutionary politics. He spoke heavily in
the States in the 1980's and in the 1990's as a means to inspire black youth to
continue in the struggle for human liberation and the liberation of Africa (or
our ancestral homeland). Kwame Ture worked in political organizations heavily.
Dr. Martin Luther King believed in black self-determination and the building of
black institutions as outlined in his 1968 MOUNTAINTOP SPEECH. Dr. King never
embraced race-neutral ideologies. He understood that black people accepting
BLACKNESS was a key psychological method in counteracting white supremacy. Dr.
King just rejected an extreme form of separatism (that some who loved Black
Power adhered to). Dr. King never rejected all aspects of Black Power. He just
wanted black people to use power in a way that did not rely on slogans. Kwame
Ture was a heroic black man. Now, Kwame Ture believed in independence not Jim
Crow segregation or token integration. Kwame True was a dedicated
anti-capitalist and a person who wanted black people to lead their own movement
for liberation. Numerous human beings are right that we have to develop programs of social uplift
to help African Americans living in America. We must continue to fight economic
injustice, racial oppression, environmental harm, and our liberties being
violated by corporate interests. Also, we have to understand our role in the
global, international picture too. In other words, we are not just human beings
living in America. We are Africans too. We are not free totally unless all of
Africa is free. The 1966 Black Panthers gathered much of their ideals from Dr.
King, Malcolm X, the Deacons of Defense, and Kwame Ture. Kwame Ture supported
the Lowndes Party in MS that used the Panther as the logo before the BPP came
about in Oakland. I respect how the righteous members of the BPP advocated
anti-imperialism, community development, and anti-capitalism. I will give
credit when credit is due. Yet, in life, one lesson is morality. When a human
being is moral, he or she can have full strength to battle oppression. So, we
have to be moral if we want to witness the victory.

The study shows the
truth in an amazing fashion. The study (from Dr. Jeffrey Berger and Dr. Carlos Alviar) is comprehensive, detailed, and
blatantly transparent. Marriage is a very important part of human existence.
Strong marriages can lift up human beings, strengthen children, and grow the
power of communities worldwide. We should promote strong, loving marriages in
our society. Human beings who are compatible with each other have every right
to be married, to have children, to actively fight for building up the black
community. This struggle for liberation is also about fighting economic
inequality. It is about caring for the poor. It is about advancing the human
dignity of our people and to oppose imperialism too. These actions further grow
authentic social change. Advancing stronger marriages legitimately has nothing
to do with being an extremist or advancing an authoritarian theocracy (which I
oppose forthrightly. Human beings have the right to be single if a person
desires to be in a free society). It is about encouraging more love among our
people. It is about sufficiently seeing that our families are valuable and our
families matter in the world. The hatred and demented actions of white racists
against the inhabitants of the world is unparalleled in human history. No human
should participate in bigotry (anyone who is involved in racism is wrong), but
as a black man, I HAVE EVERY GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO CONFRONT WHITE SUPREMACY AND TO
ADVOCATE JUSTICE FOR MY PEOPLE. Six million human beings signing up for the ACA
is an interesting development. One thing is true. We can't go back to the
status quo (or health care being solely some for profit system, which is an
abomination). The status quo caused massive fraud, waste, and abuse throughout
our health care system. The Affordable Care Act was a reaction to the problems
of the status quo. It has strengths and weaknesses. Many compromises are in it.
I believe that ACA is a step, but it is not the final goal. We should continue
to advocate health care for humanity and do it in the correct way at the same
time. It is their (or the racists') insane jealousy of us that makes them irrational as you have
mentioned here. Our great melanin (which is documented to protect the human eye
from free radicals, protect the skin, etc.), our resilient spirit, and our
strong legacy will remain. They or white racists are doubled minded since they deny any racism
among some in their people, but they want to issue negative stereotypes
collectively against all BLACK PEOPLE. So, they are angry that KARMA is showing
up and the world is witnessing their abhorrent agenda. Black liberation is neither
racist nor evil at all. It is the righteous goal of any real black human being.
Like the Black Panthers of old, we have to continue to endorse community based
programs as means to progressively improve the conditions of our situation.

The Republican
extremists are hypocrites. You have displayed irrefutable facts that the racist
trolls and white racists in this site can never ever refute. The racist
Southern Strategy overtly was used as a means for Republicans to appeal to
white racist sensibilities and scapegoat the poor and black people for the
criminals acts done the ruling class. Even Republican strategist Lee Atwater,
back in 1981, admitted that the Southern Strategy was bigoted from the very
beginning in its composition. Before he died, he issued an apology for what he
has done. The GOP has never condemned in strong fashion the evil comments made
by Limbaugh, Nugent, Coulter, O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, and the rest of those
reactionary extremists. It is ironic that the core of the GOP's support is
found in places where there is a high level of government services sent to
citizens. Also, they say nothing on government funded bailouts and the
government using taxpayer dollars to fund the military as well. The Democrats
are not perfect either, but the vicious rhetoric from many of inside of the GOP
is unparalleled. At the end of the day, we want health care, jobs, a stronger
environment, the protection of our civil liberties, our voting rights
preserved, equality, justice, and the liberation for all black people worldwide
(for Black is Beautiful). I agree with those who say that we as black people are tired of
the "get over it" rhetoric from some. They are 100 percent correct on
that point. I find it funny that reactionaries want people to get over it, but many
reactionaries will never get over the fact that black people have the right to
disagree with Republican extremism. Also, Black people have every right to
embrace INDEPENDENT THINKING. THE INDEPENDENCE OF THINKING AND THE INDEPENDENCE
OF ACTION ARE KEY PARTS OF THE BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE POINT BLANK PERIOD.
The Maafa was much worse than indentured servitude. Many indentured servants
were freed and given much more legal freedoms than oppressed black slaves in
Africa, the Americas, and worldwide. The Maafa was a brutal crime, which is
worse what than the Irish, the Germans, and the Russians have suffered. Today,
some of these same white ethnic groups in America benefit from the system more
so than Black Americans. What these white ethnic groups suffered can’t be
justified. Not to mention that serfdom is far less brutal than overt chattel
slavery. Slavery was not abolished in some countries until the late 19th
century or in the 20th century like Saudi Arabia (it banned it recently by
1962). There is still slavery in the world today harming different backgrounds
including black people. Not to mention that the brutal lynchings, rapes, theft
across continents, stereotypes, lying propaganda, discrimination, etc. of black
people worldwide far exceed the suffering of the Germans, Russians, Scots, and
Irish. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HATED ON AND STEREOTYPED MORE SO THAN ANY PEOPLE
IN HUMAN HISTORY. Therefore, black people have suffered as a product of racial
hatred and class oppression. Many white ethnic groups still view themselves as
superior to black people. Even today, anti-black racists groups are common in
Europe. They brutalize black people right now in Russia, France, Italy, and all
over Europe.

They or
reactionaries lecture on socialism and welfare, but some of them refuse to
discuss about socialism for the super-rich that has existed via tax breaks, oil
allowances, bailouts, etc. (which some of them enthusiastically support). The
New Deal is a perfect example of their hypocrisy. The New Deal involved a
massive government giveaway to mostly white Americans. Black people in many
cases were prevented, via discrimination, to receive the massive benefits from
the New Deal. Before the New Deal, it was the government that gave immigrants
and white citizens benefited from the Homestead Act (which used government
money for farming, college, and other things). Now, they want to talk about
condemning any public program. Black people have worked hard in this nation.
Our ancestors were paid nothing in this country as slaves. Today, we are still
fighting oppression and injustice. Exposing the ruling class for its hypocrisy
and abominations is just plain commonsense. Any oppressed people have every
right to demand justice and recompense. I fully comprehend the arguments
against universal health care. One major misconception about universal health
care is that it will only exist in this top down government totally run,
mandatory system. That is not true. There are universal health care systems
that allow flexibility in its composition. Every industrialized nation has
universal health care except America. Many of those nations have better health
indicators than America. If it can work there, it can work here. Also, cutting
costs, and making health care more efficient can be part of an universal health
care solution as well. In America, there are tons of stories of human beings
dying by failing to pay health bills, dying because of expensive surgeries, and
dying because of expensive health care services in general. One such story about the evil found in the status quo involved the Brother of Veronica De La Cruz. Her brother in America could not
afford health care costs and he died, because of a corrupt health care system
(before ACA came into existence). I make no justifications for the ACA’s errors
at all. What I do mention is that a single payer system is superior to the ACA.
There is nothing immoral of preventing discrimination based on preexisting
conditions. There is nothing immoral about talking about health care in moral
terms. This is a moral issue. Canada is an interesting nation (Canadians should
improve its imperfections in their health care services, but that does not mean
that any form of universal health care is immoral though. Dr. John P. Geyman,
Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington have
debunked many misconceptions about universal health care), and other nations
have great successes with UHC.

Barbarism, police
state terror, and the denial of basic democratic rights are all descriptions of
crooked members of the NYPD. The same ones lecturing our people on law and
order readily are silent on the disorder and lawlessness of evil police
officers. Quinshon Shingles was heroic to stand up against folks who wanted to
use the badge as a means to humiliate people. Framing black people is a
historical fact and the capitalist prison industrial complex is filled with
many innocent members of the human race. The settlement given to Shingles is
positive news. Yet, we have so much more to go in fighting for inherit inborn
liberation. Grieco being investigated for various abuses and crimes represents
KARMA in more ways than one. So, the overarching theme is that police brutality
should be continually opposed forever. I share the same frustration that you
have. These racists and reactionaries are despicable. They hate us when we
intellectually refute their inaccurate arguments. These racists are evil. They
disrespect Trayvon and his family, so I have no respect for any racist at all.
Their evil is truly demonic and they exploit tragedies as a means to diminish
the value of black life. They hate black life and they make all sorts of
excuses to justify any extrajudicial death of black people. So, we are in
solidarity with our Brothers and our Sisters here. So, real human beings should keep on doing what they are doing. Humanity is Strong and I am not worried at all. My parents experienced
the evils found in the Jim Crow South too and they told me and my relatives’
stories about that obscene time period. The parents and grandparents suffered
Jim Crow oppression. The Klan was involved in that oppression and the Klan is a terrorist group.
That is why the Deacons of Defense (who were Brothers who owned weapons in a
group as a means to stand up against injustice) used self-defense against the
Klan as a means for the Deacons of Defense to protect civil rights activists
all over the South. Even Malcolm X before he died, called for self-defense
units to go into the South to counteract the vicious crimes committed against
black people by white racists. So, we are right to struggle for justice. Yes, I
love Caribbean music. I have Caribbean blood in my mother's side of my family.
I like Billy Ocean's music, I respect Bob Marley's music, I heard of Peter
Tosh's talent before, and so many other talented human beings. Yes, Reggae and
African music are similar. Much of the music from the Caribbean has African,
European, and even some Indian influences. There is a strong Indian population
in Trinidad now. The drum sounds that are found in many Caribbean songs come
from Africa. Music from Haiti (with Voudou), the Dominican Republic (with merengue),
Trinidad (with its calypso sound, which is heavily found in Carnival
celebrations), etc. have roots from Africa. Sisters like Dandelion are correct to describe the similarities between reggae and African music indeed.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Honestly, black people have the right to
believe in political independence. I don’t have respect for the leadership of
the GOP or the Tea Party at all. They tolerate bigotry & extremism from
Rush Limbaugh, Savage, Ann Coulter Bill O’Reilly, and others (who advance the
agenda of white supremacy). I abhor that agenda 100 percent. With that being said,
we have to be real with our economic situation. The privatized Federal Reserve
(who blatantly manipulate interest rates) and central banks globally have
harmed the infrastructure of nations, deregulated massively national resources,
influenced wars, increased unemployment, and grew economic inequality. We know
that the QE benefit Wall Street not Main Street heavily at all. The IMF's and
the World Bank's massive privatization and neo-liberal policies have disrupted
economic progress as well. History shows that. Anyone that refuses to expose
the corruption found in Wall Street and refuse to expose corporate corruption
is missing the point. So, we should end the system of central, privatized
banks, and focus more on public banking including decentralized banks
(including independent, cooperative banks as advocated by Ellen Brown, Stephen
Zarlenga, Dennis Kucinich, and others). True currency ought to be based on
sound money (like debt free money) not debt filled money. Both parties for a
long time have advocated bailouts for the big banks, QE, imperialism, unfair
trade policies, NSA spying, imperialism including war mongering, etc. That is a
fact. So, we need to work in independent organizations that are actively
creating solutions in our community. We have the right to protest (and to
vote), but protesting is not enough. We have to mentor, work in community based
programs, support those who are actively fighting discrimination, support those
who are creating grassroots solutions, and advocate economic justice. We need
more than economic justice (a higher minimum wage that most Americans support,
an ending of unfair tax breaks for the super wealthy, and even a guaranteed
annual income are items that I have no issue with). We need social justice too.
Racism and discrimination should be opposed with all of our strength not just
economic corruption. We are fighting a racial and class struggle for human
justice at the end of the day. That means that we have to advocate legitimate
regulations against pollution (since lax regulations contributed to the BP
disaster and the disaster in West Virginia recently), we have to return our
civil liberties that have been stripped from us, we have to advocate workers’
rights, and we should advocate voting rights.

I agree with you 100 percent. The
current President has been heavily insulted in a vicious way. The Belgium
newspaper tried to save face. Their perverted depiction of the President and
his beautiful wife is disgraceful, evil, childish, and immature. Europe is not
some progressive paradise as some have depicted it as well. There is still a
strong neo-Nazi racist movement in Europe. Leopold II of Belgium during the
19th century was involved in the deaths of millions of black people in the
Congo. So, Belgium has a history of being involved in the atrocities of
European imperialism. The newspaper's explanation over its evil action is
blatantly a desperate attempt to try to maintain their abhorrent reputation.
The satirist trying to justify his action is a true shame. I am not surprised
by this since racism and vicious caricatures of black people are global
phenomenons. We have to confront these things since nothing changes unless we
fight for solutions and confront evil. We have to confront evil in order for
good to prosper in the world. I am in solidarity with Brothers and Sisters in
Belgium (and others globally). Donald Rumsfeld is who he is. He is a hypocrite.
He complains about foreign policy today, but he was involved in the foreign
policy disaster of the Iraq War. His role in the Iraq War caused tons of Iraqis
and Americans (including others to die) based on faulty intelligence,
deception, and other forms of lies. War crimes, destruction of infrastructure,
depleted uranium, and torture have festered as a product of the Iraq War.
Rumsfeld was an ally of Nixon and other reactionaries, so we know where he
stands. He stands for corporate interests. He stands for a retrograde foreign
policy that adheres to imperialism not rational thinking. He shook hands with
Saddam Hussein back in 1983 too. Neo-conservative policies have only
exacerbated issues in the Middle East. He is an unrepentant war criminal. His
ape remarks signify how some try to dehumanize the President by saying that an
ape can do better than him. That is an insult to the President’s intelligence
and his humanity. So, Rumsfeld’s remarks reflect his immaturity and his
ignorance. These white reactionaries make no bones about how they feel about us
as black people. Therefore, I have no respect for Donald Rumsfeld or his
neo-conservative agenda at all. I remember doing research about Belgium and the
Rwanda massacres. The Organization of African Unity (OAU) issued a report that
had talked about this issue too. That is a great point. Prof Michel Chossudovsky has great research about how America and
France are related to the geopolitics of these massacres. Major General Kagame,
who led the RPF insurrection, was supported by the US and Britain. Glen Ford
and other experts have documented the West's role in their lax responses to the
Rwanda massacre too.

So far, Russia has not invaded all
of Ukraine at all. Crimea has asserted its moral right of self-determination.
Putin is not perfect, but he is not Hitler either. Many fascists and neo-Nazis
have power in the new puppet Kiev regime. It is a shame that Western power want
to recognize the fascist led putsch regime in Kiev. Also, folks should research
petrodollars, gas, and oil and how it relates to this crisis. It has a very
great deal to do with this crisis also (Russia and China are in unison
involving the Ukraine issue. If both nations unite to harm the petrodollar in
response to the Western sanctions, then that will cause massive problems globally).
I found that 25 percent of the natural gas that Europe uses comes from Russia.
Ukraine has only 4 months of natural gas supplies stockpiled. So, we have to
realize the interdependence of these events. I believe that the President
should go for massive negotiations and more threats against Russia will not
solve this problem totally at all. I condemn fascism too since these fascists
are harming the democratic rights of the Ukrainian people. At the end of the
day, we want an independent Ukraine and an independent Crimea (without
imperialist interests). The President still condemned the March 16 referendum
that caused Crimea to effectively seceded Ukraine. The West wants Moscow to
accept the Western backed fascist coup in the Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov agreed to meet with the foreign minister of the Kiev regime. “We
set forth our vision to establish good national dialogue taking into account
all residents of Ukraine,” Lavrov told a press conference after meeting with
Deshchytsia. In reality, we should never give a veneer of democratic
credibility to an illegitimate, fascistic regime in Kiev. There is a debate on
whether Kiev will conduct the elections in an orderly fashion. The fascistic
and anti-Russian character of the forces on which the Kiev regime rests
precludes any meaningful democratic process or any lasting agreement with
Moscow. Shortly after Lavrov’s talks with Deshchytsia ended, Ukrainian police
operatives shot and killed a key leader of the fascist Right Sector militia, Oleksandr
Muzychko. This led to threats from the Right Sector, which played a key role in
last month’s putsch that it would retaliate. President Barack Obama will meet
to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Pope, and Italy’s new
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and Saudi Arabia (to meet with King Abdullah). The
West wants use capitalist techniques as a means to pressure Moscow to give in
to their demands on Ukraine. The U.S. even threatens to pressure Russia’s oil
and natural gas industry that supplies a third of Europe’s demand and is
central to the Russian economy. So, the Western Empire (with its now G7
meetings and its NATO encircling Russia) has been exploitative, evil, and
wicked. The Empire is in decline and we have the right to advocate true democratic
freedoms not imperialism.

Frank Aconoma admitted that he wants white supremacy. He wanting white supremacy is by definition racism. As
black people, we want to abolish and end the system of white supremacy (which
is a system that brutalized nations, harmed human rights, and caused
discrimination), so a system of justice can be instituted. These people are
extremists. That wicked organization or the Klan have been directly involved (in all
levels) in depriving black people of human rights, in destroying religious
buildings, doing rapes, and committing murder. Just because someone is not
lynching a person or killing someone, doesn't mean that person is disqualified
from being a racist. So, Frank Ancoma is wrong. That is why black people should
reject the reactionary aims of that group and advocate true liberation for all
black people globally. Malcolm X back in February 4, 1965 in Selma, Alabama (to
SNCC youth) gave a great description of that nefarious white supremacy group.
Here are his following words: "...I hope I haven’t put anybody on the
spot. I’m not intending to try and stir you up and make you do something that
you wouldn’t have done anyway. I pray that God will bless you in everything
that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually, so that you can
understand the problems of the world and where you fit into, in that world
picture. And I pray that all the fear that has ever been in your heart will be
taken out, and when you look at that man, if you know he’s nothing but a
coward, you won’t fear him. If he wasn’t a coward, he wouldn’t gang up on you.
He wouldn’t need to sneak around here. This is how they function. They function
in mobs-that’s a coward. They put on a sheet so you won’t know who they
are-that’s a coward. No! The time will come when that sheet will be tipped off.
If the federal government doesn’t take it off, we’ll take it off..."
Malcolm X was right in his words. Also, Malcolm X never became an
integrationist to the establishment after his trip to Mecca. What he did change
was his views on race, race relationships, and the possibility of an eventual
brotherhood. He changed some of his views and he became more progressive while
not changing his overall core convictions. After Mecca, he continued to travel
in Africa and held numerous discussions with many revolutionary Africans.
Malcolm X understood that racial oppression was not just about bigotry, but it
also involves economic, political, social, and cultural exploitation from the
oppressor. Malcolm X became an internationalist and he wanted to execute
actions as a means to internationalize the struggle. He accurately saw that
racism and capitalism are linked and that you can’t have capitalism without
racism (for capitalism in essence causes competition, divisions, and exploitation
leaving many human beings suffering). We need to formulate a politically
independent means to address the needs of our people and the rest of humanity.
We know that the modern capitalist system use brainwashing techniques and other
means to worship selfish individualism at the expense of the suffering
including the poor. We (as black people and freedom loving human beings in
general) are a majority while the capitalist elite is a minority. So, there is
nothing racist about an organization that is all black in it of itself. There
is something racist about institutions of oppression that seek to harm society
at large via discrimination and injustice. So, we need no token concessions. We
just want freedom. Society must be revolutionary changed to benefit the entire
human race.

This story is so touching. Misty
Copeland is certainly inspiring human beings all over the world. The gifts of
dance and ballet are blessings. When we help another human being in a decisive
way, then we are blessed too. That is what life is all about. It is about
learning our value and giving our time plus efforts as a means for us to assist
the human race. Her story represents how people can overcome challenges and be
strident in living their lives. I wish the best for Misty Copeland. There can
be no true black liberation without black women's empowerment. Black Women from
Ella Baker to Fannie Lou Hamer have made great contributions in the black
struggle. In fact, Malcolm X woke up a great deal even before his Hajj. Yet,
after his Hajj, he accelerated his understanding of the world in a
transformative way. The Sister Vicky Garvin coordinated much of Malcolm X's
travels into Africa. The Sister Selma Sparks was a leader in the OAAU's
newspaper called the Blacklash. She conducted interviews with Malcolm X and
Malcolm X allowed women to have a leadership role in the OAAU itself. Lynne
Shifflet was the office manager of the OAAU. Do I like Caribbean music? Yes, I
love Caribbean music. I have Caribbean blood in my mother's side of my family.
I like Billy Ocean's music, I respect Bob Marley's music, I heard of Peter
Tosh's talent before, and so many other talented human beings. Yes, Reggae and
African music are similar. Much of the music from the Caribbean have African,
European, and even some Indian influences. There is a strong Indian population
in Trinidad now. The drum sounds that are found in many Caribbean songs come
from Africa. Music from Haiti (with Voudou), the Dominican Republic (with
merengue), Trinidad (with its calypso sound, which is heavily found in Carnival
celebrations), etc. have roots from Africa. One Sister named Dandelion is
correct to know about the African links to reggae. Michael Vick not only paid
his debt to society. He has worked in pro-animal programs that deal with
rational treatment of animals. If a man expresses legitimate contrition over
his mistakes and does actions that prove that he truly has a change of heart,
then folks will have to move on. PETA is silly and ignorant to judge this man
harshly over events that he was made accountable for before. PETA has it
extremism too. Michael Vick should continue on what he is doing, ignore the
haters, and express the great talent that God has given him. It is ironic that
many refuse to forgive black people, but they want to forgive others who are
assaulters, murderers, and other criminals. Michael Vick is a very intelligent,
articulate black man. I have seen his interviews before. I wish the Brother the
best in his life.

There is the German Bild newspaper called the Bild. It featured an
interview with the Ukrainian politician and oligarch Yulia Tymoshenko. She is
being treated in a Berlin hospital. She tried to compare him or Vladimir Puti to Hitler. Putin
made recent remarks. She said that Putin’s words were “the like of which the
world has not heard since 1938.” She said that Putin represents unfiltered
fascism, which was even more dangerous than Hitler’s National Socialism,
because “he camouflaged it with phrases about friendship between peoples”,
Tymoshenko said. Putin wants to “redraw the map of the world through wars, mass
murder and blood”. This would become Putin’s “Mein Kampf”. This is extremism
and totally false. The German newspaper in Germany called Bild has almost 2.5
million daily sales and a reach of over 12 million reading. This paper is
spreading propaganda about the situation. Apart from the business daily
Handelsblatt, which wrote that Tymoshenko’s statements raised “doubts about her
state of mind”, no one in the world of German politics and media has rejected
her Putin-Hitler comparison. Her words represent a distortion of historical
truth. Tymoshenko trivialize the brutality of Nazism. German laws even forbid
such statements. According to paragraph 130 of Germany’s Penal Code, if someone
“denies or renders harmless an act committed under the rule of National
Socialism”, such as genocide or crimes against humanity, it is punishable by up
to five years imprisonment or a fine. She equates Russia’s annexation of
Crimea, which was based on a clear vote by Crimean residents, with the Hitler’s
war of destruction against the Soviet Union (where 20 million Soviet human
beings were killed including millions of Jews, communists, and partisans who
were mercilessly butchered even in Ukraine). This trivialization of Nazism and
the Holocaust is wrong and evil. Tymoshenko has been praised in the Western
media as an icon of Ukrainian democracy. Her right wing Fatherland Party has
just formed an alliance with the fascist Svoboda for the planned elections in
May. We know that German industrialists financed Hitler and President Paul von
Hindenburg appointed him as chancellor in January of 1933 (because Hitler
promised the capitalist ruling class that he would smash the organized working
class once and for all and he would wage a war against the Soviet Union). The
Nazis supported bigots in Ukraine to attack the Soviet Union. The Nazis used
the Ukrainian farmland and resources as a means to fund that wicked Empire. There was
the pro-Nazi OUN or the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of Stepan
Bandera. Bandera today is revered by Svoboda as a model and hero. Bandera
worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust. On June 30, 1941, before the
invasion of regular German troops, the wing of the OUN in the city of Lviv lead
by Bandera carried out a massacre in which about 7,000 Communists and Jews were
killed. Germany wants to get resources now and they are in cooperation with the
EU and NATO allies. Svoboda, which is celebrated by the fascist German National
Party (NPD) as “one of Europe’s most significant right-wing parties,” closely
linked politically and organization ally with the British National Party (BNP),
Hungary’s Jobbik, Italy’s Fiamma Tricolore and France’s National Front (FN). In
May last year, the NPD faction in the Saxony state legislature received and
entertained a delegation from Svoboda. Ten years ago, when Oleh Tiahnybok took
over the leadership of Svoboda, he told his supporters in a speech, “Grab the
guns, fight the Russian pigs, the Germans, the Jew-pigs and other vermin. Fight
for our Ukrainian homeland!” These are allies of some in the German government.
The German ambassador in Kiev met with Tiahnybok many times last year. Even the
Christian Democrat affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation invited Svoboda
members on study tours in Berlin. The Svoboda was a strong force in the Maidan
(Independence Square) protests. Many fascist thugs helped to overthrow the
government and they organized a reactionary putsch in Kiev. Yulia Tymoshenko knows these
facts very well. Her Fatherland Party differs only slightly from those
professing fascist and anti-Semitic views. Her electoral alliance with Svoboda
was struck in close consultation with the German government. We should oppose
fascism and imperialism forever.

The war activists and the peace
activists advocate for an agenda. Many of them are in government positions.
Some have huge funding, access to big media, and organize meetings all of the
time. Some have contempt for the public and the war activists use fear a
distorted view of nationalism as a means to gain support. War activists are
propagandists typically. Many are not journalists, not researchers, and not
academics. We should educate ourselves about these issues. William Kristol and
Robert Kagan are neo-cons and war activists. They have their organization
called Foreign Policy Initiative. It represents a modified version of the
Project for the New American Century, which was an earlier war activist
organization. The FPI talks less about oil and more about human rights, but
they want the U.S. domination of the world. They find any success by anyone
else in the world a threat to America. They want more military development and
war if necessary to be an end in itself. This mentality was embraced by
imperialists back in the 19th century. Agitators are deluded in believing that
war brings strength and glory, builds character, and makes a nation a Super
Power. Kristol recently lamented U.S. public opposition to war. The reason is
that most Americans, via polls, are sick of wars. We are outraged in the wars
of Iraq and Afghanistan. We don’t want new ones to start up again. In
September, missile strikes into Syria were successfully opposed by public
resistance. In February, a new bill to impose sanctions on Iran and commit the
United States to joining in any Israeli-Iranian war was blocked by public
pressure. The country and the world are turning against the drone wars. That is
why real activists are right to advocate the dismantling the infrastructure
that generate pressure for wars. There are military bases in over 100 nations.
Weapons sales are growing. New nukes are being developed. NATO has expanded
into the edge of Russia. The neo cons are invoking the Cold War as an excuse to
promote war agitation (ranging from giving anti-ballistic missiles to Poland
and Eastern Europe to literal military aid to the Ukraine). Kagan worked for
Hillary Clinton. Kagan’s wife is Victoria Nuland. Nuland is involved in
stirring up the situations in Ukraine as Assistant Secretary of State.
President Barack Obama admires Robert Kagan. Kristol criticizes Obama as not
going far enough and Kagan reassures Obama that he is doing the right thing yet
he must build up the military a bit more. The war mongering by the current
administration and previous ones can never be justified. We should build up own
our nation. Even a small fraction of U.S. military spending can guarantee the
whole world food, clean water, and medicine. So, we should fight against not
only war, but oppression in the world via legitimate means.

The whole situation must be
discussed, because human beings are suffering in the world. Corporations in the
States presently have massive profits and record tax breaks. Wall Street banking
interests have record profits. According to the estimates from David Cay
Johnston, American corporations hold about 7.9 trillion dollars in liquid
assets. This level is higher than corporate revenues. There should be
investments in STEM related fields. More human beings in America should have
the opportunities to get into such careers. Such careers that are related to
STEM fields are not going away, since we need concepts relating to science,
technology, etc. as a means for us to develop homes, to grow infrastructure, to
finalize engineering projects, and to advance technology in general. Also, we
need a fairer tax code and there has to be revolutionary economic solutions
here from ending QE to even establishing a guaranteed annual income (including
other methods to fight for full employment. The central banking of the Federal
Reserve blatantly benefits select monetary interests, which is antithetical to
the aspirations of Main Street). Populists like Ellen Brown, Stephen Zarlenga,
etc. want a fair public banking system (where banks are more decentralized not
centralized. States, counties, cities, etc. should form their own banks as a
means to strengthen economic power in communities nationwide). These banks can
cause more direct economic improvement. So, the burgeoning movement for local,
cooperatively-owned and community-oriented banks ought to be supported. We know
that the error filled Federal Reserve is not public at all. We need the
development of economic cooperatives too. Economist Kaoru Yamaguchi's computer
model has shown that a public-based money system and spending government money
on jobs fixing our infrastructure is the best form of economic growth. We
should continue to support policies to fight racism, militarism,
discrimination, and poverty. Massive austerity ought to be rejected since real
folks want the poor to have justice not oppression. Solutions can’t be
monolithic since our economic problems are very much complex.

In life, we have to learn more.
Regardless, we are in a struggle for liberation. Now, we should be careful to
not follow counterrevolutionary agenda. We are revolutionaries. We believe in
workers’ rights and human rights in general. We should not only build up real
infrastructure, but we should advance more radical politics. The oppression
back in the early 20th century was terrible like today. Even Booker T.
Washington by the end of his life began to speak out in more direct terms
against Jim Crow, lynching, and D.W. Griffith historically inaccurate film of
1915 called “The Birth of a Nation.” In the early 20th century, black people
were lynched all of the time. We have to reject xenophobia and chauvinism. Many
counterrevolutionaries today love to cut welfare and social services as a means
to advance “self-improvement” and “economic independence,” but such actions
only hurt human beings, especially the poor. We have to have a class and racial
analysis on why things are in the first place. Malcolm X was also right to
advocate equality between the sexes. In other words, we have to reject fascism
in all of it dimensions. Human beings should not only learn STEM fields. Human
beings have the right to support the arts too including any form of culturally excellent
subjects. We must agitate for solutions. The war on organized labor continues.
A proletarian rebellion is rejected by the ruling class. So, the ruling class
supports reactionary groups as a means to divide up humanity into warring
factions and to allow folks to love the capitalist system. We know that capitalism
has done wickedness. Chattel slavery was based on a plantation economy and
accumulated capital via unfreed fixed labor. Even in the North during Jim Crow,
black people were economically exploited. Still, the black proletariat and
other black human beings have a tremendous impact on the evolution of the class
struggle. C.L.R. James has argued that if it were not for the masses of black
people in the South via the Underground Railroad and other slave revolts before
the Civil War, the northern bourgeoisie and the Southern plantation owners
would have compromised. C.L.R. James was right that Malcolm X wanted African
American self-organization, but he did not want a new African American
capitalist state. Malcolm X wanted equal rights for African Americans, but not
assimilation into the white establishment capitalist society. He said this after his Hajj into Mecca. He believed in equality in his following words from February of 1965: "...I believe in a society in which people can live like human beings on the basis of equality..." Malcolm X was a
revolutionary and allied with the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements
of the world. At the time of his assassination, Malcolm X was a great
revolutionary. He would be even a greater leader if he was around today. Also,
we have to acknowledge the leadership role of women who fought in the
liberation struggle of humanity. Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark
(who created a network of Citizenship Schools that taught poor Black men and
Black women to read, to write, and to register to vote), Rosa Parks, Charlayne
Hunter-Gault, and Dorothy Height are some of the many heroes who stood up for
truth plus justice.

In Venezuela, its citizens are fighting
fascism. Captain Jose Guillen Araque is from the Venezuelan National Guard. He
recently gave President Maduro a book on the rise of Nazism. He warned Maduro
to fight back against fascism before it is too later. Later, the young captain
Araque was shot by a U.S. backed assassin in the streets of Marcay in the state
of Aragua on March 16, 2014. There has been up to 29 Venezuelan soldiers killed
since the fascist uprising. This officer was a prominent, patriotic individual.
The Venezuelan fascists have support from Washington (including from a swath of
the Venezuelan upper and middle class). These fascists constitute a minority of
the electorate and they want to take power via various means. So, President
Maduro (as warned by Captain Guillen Araque) should end fascism. Many well-meaning
democrats and social democrats have died in their fighting for democratic principles.
These fascists are organized, violent political groups. They are using a mass
terror campaign as a means to destabilize and overthrow the democratically
elected Bolivarian government. This fascism lacks the extreme racist and
nationalist ideology of German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese predecessors.
Yet, they do work as proxy of U.S. imperialism and Colombian warlord allies.
Yet, Venezuelan fascism’s racism is directed against its multiracial
African-Amerindian Venezuelan working and peasant classes – as demonstrated by
their vitriolic racism against the deceased President Hugo Chavez. These
fascists hate the popular majority, they hate the Chavista Socialist Party (who
won 18 out of the 19 elections), they resort to armed seizure of power by a
minority acting on behalf of the domestic and US imperial ruling classes, and
they want to destroy the very democratic institutions and procedures (which it
exploits to gain political power). They target working class institutions from
communal councils, neighborhood associations, public health and dental clinics,
public schools, transport, subsidized food stores, political meeting places, public
credit unions, trade union organizations and peasant co-operatives. They
support capitalist banks, huge commercial landed estates, and manufacturing
firms. Extremist fascists should not be compromised with. They try to end
democratic institutions and they hate human liberties. First, the fascists are
not simply a small band confined to pounding on pots and attacking municipal
workers in the upper-middle class neighborhoods of Caracas for the benefit of
the international and corporate media. The fascists are organized on a national
basis; their members are active throughout the country. They act in a
decentralized fashion, but their strategy is centrally controlled. They target
vital institutions and infrastructure in numerous strategic locations. The fascists
unite with reactionary professors, drug traffickers, smuggling gangs,
paramilitary groups, etc. These terrorists have bombed health care clinics,
stores, and the public transport system. So, they want to overthrow the
democratic government of Venezuela. Some things are happening though to combat
this threat. The National Assembly has voted to strip Congresswoman Corina
Machado of her immunity as a deputy in the National Assembly so she can be
prosecuted for inciting violence. The President of the National Assembly
Diosdado Cabello has presented detailed documentary evidence of her role in
organizing and promoting armed rebellion. Several opposition mayors, who were
actively involved in promoting and protecting snipers, street thugs and
arsonists, have been charged and arrested. The paramilitary groups have links
to the business elite including the fascists. These terrorists bomb food
markets and attack the trucks transporting food to the poor neighborhood, so
these terrorists are the enemy. These fascists should be defeated.

02:58
The false bipartisan meme: 'Drill Baby Drill' [whether from Obama Dims Or McCain / Palin Repugs] - Is that tar-sands & deep-sea oil, & gas-fracking is about US' energy independence & US jobs. Yet this article highlights the fact that much / most of this fracked-gas, tar-sands & deep-sea oil is ear-marked to be exported to the EU & other markets to challenge Russia as the EU's current main supplier. So deep-sea oil drilling risks poisoning the Gulf of Mexico's eco-system [IE: BP's Gulf Oil Disaster], & the KXL & gas-fracking risks poisoning the US water supply, all so Big Oil Corps can make an even bigger killing than they do now, while the US 'well oiled / gas-guzzling war-machine [IE: military &/or econ warfare {aka Econ sanctions] keeps turning.

So is this really why the US has targeted major OPEC states for regime-change [IE: Iraq, Iran, Libya, Venezuela] - So US oil corps can again dominate the oil market w little effective challenge???
FYI: The average effective production cycle for gas-fracking wells is just 2 yrs- before they have to drill another one. While the number of permanent jobs for the KXL will be less than 100.
If the EU goes for this US sucker move & become overly dependent on the US for its oil & gas, just to spite Putin's Russia- IMO they'll live to regret it.
RE Deadbeat's Blurb: I'm less concerned about his anti-Bolshevik [= anti-Russian?] rant, than challenging his claim that this [US / NATO / IMF- backed] Ukrainian coup did NOT have literal Neo-NAZIs as key players. Once I saw these guys openly display Confederate [Huhh? WTF?], white-power & NAZI insignia over Gov't bldgs in Kiev, that's all I need to see. Yet Neo-NAZI / Neo-Fascist guys hold at-least 3 or more key posts in Kiev's new coup gov't- including over the military, police & {in}Justice ministry. So will these Ukrainian Neo-NAZIs now revive a modern SS / storm-trooper type military / police force??!

There are far more Black Americans than you think who are also intrigued about African cultures, and have informed themselves. But it can be said about Americans in general that they're pragmatic, anti-intellectual, and parochial people. Americans generally know less about the outside world than do people in other industrial societies, and could generally care less. Whoever takes an interest in African or other non-American cultures really do belong to a minority, regardless of whether they're white, black, Latino or what have you.

-Savant

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Even some of his facts are skewed. The number of poor whites certainly exceed the number of poor Blacks. Given that whites are 75% of the population the number of poor whites might even exceed the entire Black population. But the PROPORTION of poor Blacks is greater than the proportion of poor whites. A far smaller proportion of whites are. But those who are exhibit more or less the same kinds of problems (crime included) as poor Blacks or Hispanics.
The primary difference between the old south and the new, is that the New Jim Crow has begun replacing the old. There has been tons of research on the persistence of racism in the post-1960s era by various human rights groups, including Amnesty International, and various groups of scholars. If you were interested you'd know about this. As for racism you display that repeatedly in your own posts even while denying it.

Tommy Sotomayor is truly a counterrevolutioanry, reactionary Uncle Tom. He refuses to talk about revolutionary solutions or even discuss about pan-Africanism (which is a great concept to adhere to). He doesn't expose how race and class oppression contribute to the damage done in the black community. He ignores how many black women have been at the vanguard of the black liberation struggle from Ella Baker to Gloria Richardson. Misogynistic rhetoric against the Sisters is treason. Even today, many Brothers and many Sisters are fighting hard for justice. I prefer reading literature, working, helping my family, and building in my community than listen to the rants from that Tom Sotomayor. I will always embrace revolutionary ideals in my life.

What is Baba Zak Kondo’s thoughts RE: of the role of then NOI National Coordinating Secretary John Ali [IMO Ali held essentially the same rank as Malcolm in the NOI's hierarchy- minus Malcolm's visibility] in Malcolm’s assassination??? It has been reported by the late Louis Lomax [who knew Malcolm X & wrote a book on his & MLK's assassination's called 'To Kill a Black Man' - Lomax was doing further research on a more extensive expose' when he was killed in 1970 in a car crash due to brake failure- HUMM] & also Malcolm X researcher & author Karl Evanzz that John Ali was an FBI informant who attained hi rank in the NOI & thus was part of Elijah Muhammed’s inner circle of advisers meeting w Mr Muhammed on a daily basis [unlike Malcolm]. IMO due to Mr Muhammed’s chronic heath issues, Ali along w Supreme FOI Capt Shareef [& other key NOI ministers] were effectively running the day to day OPs of the NOI. Malcolm X himself said that John Ali exacerbated tensions between him & Elijah Muhammad, & thus considered Ali as his “archenemy” within the ranks of NOI leadership. On Feb 20, 1965, on the eve of Malcolm’s assassination, Ali reportedly met with Talmadge Hayer, who was caught at the scene of the Audubon & later confessed to being one of Malcolm’s killers [also see http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/31-31/4707-real-black-history-month-malcolm-x-evidence-of-us-intelligence-assassination - this article also emphasizes the role & actions of Malcolm body-guard & NYPD undercover-cop / BOSSI agent Gene Roberts re: Malcolm's assassination].
Thus IMO if the order to ‘hit’ Malcolm came thru John Ali, though it would have naturally been assumed, by the NOI’s rank & file FOI, to have come Mr Muhammed- if Ali was indeed a hi-ranking FBI informant it would have been just as [If NOT MORE] likely that the ‘hit’ order actually came from Edgar Hoover’s &/or Sullivan’s FBI office!!!
Also can Baba Kondo clarify which royal family member’s may have played a role in Malcolm’s death- besides of-course Mr Muhammed himself?

Malcolm X in his Auto-biography, referred to his friendship w Wallace Muhammed, who he said is the one who actually first confirmed his father’s relationships w several of Mr Muhammed’s young secretaries [resulting in several out-of-wedlock births], & the strife this caused within the royal family itself. This led Malcolm ‘confronting’ Mr Muhammed re: this issue, which ultimately was a prelude to Malcolm’s ouster from the NOI.

Many seem to forget
about the 47 percent comment that disrespected millions of Americans. The
reality is that the Gilded Age was so brutal that the corporate elite was
forced to institute concessions. The truth is that many of the poor are poor by
no fault of their own. Most of the poor work hard and are honorable human
beings. They are not parasites. The real parasites are those who exploit
natural resources as a means to pollute the environment, those who created war
crimes, and those who plunder the wealth from other nations illegally (via Wall
Street interests) and are not prosecuted for it. So, real human beings should keep on exposing the
wicked system of white supremacy. Everyone has the right to their opinion. I
just disagree with some of what the Sister Betty Wright said. It doesn't matter
how lyrical a person is. We as a people have had enough our Brothers and
Sisters being degraded (and called outside of their names by white racists and
even by some deluded members of our people). We have had enough of the N word being
used to describe us as a people collectively. We have had enough of rape and
other immorality being glamorized in music. We have had enough of militarism
and imperialism in the world. So, we have every right to critique things. It is
bigger than Rick Ross, because many folks are much worse than him (like
reactionary racists, dictators, murderers, etc. Rick Ross should not be blamed
for everything wrong in the world). Yet, we have to take a stand on things. RIP
to Jerome Murdough. This story signifies the need for all us of to address
mental illness in our community in a more dedicated fashion. Jerome Murdough
never deserved to be treated with such disrespect and with such a disregard of
his human dignity by the NY Corrections Department and the city of NY at all.
He was not checked up regularly and his mental health needs were never
adequately addressed in a progressive fashion. He should not have died in the
first place if alternative actions were instituted for his situation. The
prison is directly responsible for this man's death and Jerome's family should
do all means possible to make sure that the city of New York is held into
account for their negligent and revolting behavior. This man should of not of
been sent to Rikers Island when this man was not harming anyone, but was just
trying to find shelter. Homelessness and poverty are important issues for us to
discuss and find solutions to. We have every God given right to express
ourselves and not agree with their reactionary agenda. Our ancestors built
cities and suffered unspeakable actions without pay. Therefore, we should not
take any garbage from any of these bigots here. As long as we fight with a just
cause, we will be fine. The truth is known more than ever and they certainly
fear the strength of the BLACK YOUTH. The black man and the black woman united
is a powerful force in the Universe that can overcome mountains of adversity
and oppression. We overcame the odds during the Maafa, during slavery, and
during Jim Crow. We will continue to advance excellence and adhere to the creed
of liberation.

Yes, you can look
at his policies on drones, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan, etc. to witness that he
or the President is not weak on foreign policy matters. I don't agree with him
on foreign policy, yet he is not anemic on foreign policy matters.
Fundamentally, the President should not invade Ukraine with troops over this
issue. We should allow diplomacy to handle this matter. We see that the
unelected government of Kiev continues in its fascism. The Svoboda party led by
Svoboda MPs stormed the offices of Ukraine’s state television, NTU, after NTU
broadcast the Russian parliament signing a treaty with Crimea. They broke into
the office of NTU President Aleksandr Panteleymonov and forced him to sign a
resignation letter. The attack was led by Igor Miroshnichenko, a Svoboda MP and
deputy head of the Ukraine government’s committee on freedom of speech. Crimea
asserting its right of self-determination is something that I am not losing sleep
over. Neo-con extremist rhetoric from McCain, Palin, and others are things that
I reject. Sanctions coming from both sides are interesting, but sanctions can
never be a permanent solution. Only fighting for the interests of the Ukrainian
people (in allowing that nation to be independent without EU/NATO/IMF
domination) is a solution. Many in that Kiev government are filled with racists
and fascists. So, Western imperialism should never be justified at all and
Putin is not perfect either. How can the West lecture on human rights, but it
violated the human rights of blacks and others for decades and centuries (even
in violation of international law in places like Guatemala, Chile, Iran back in
1952, etc.)? In the final analysis, we want human liberation. There is a lot of
information that the public doesn’t know about. We know about many of the Brown
storm troopers that conquered Kiev. President Yanukovych escaped into Russia to
save his life. The Mme Timoshenko came out of the jail and swore to void treaties
with Russia to expel the Russian Black Sea Fleet from its main harbor in
Sevastopol. The new government is ruled by the oligarchs in the Eastern
provinces. There are children in Ukrainian schools were ordered to sing “Hang a
Russian on a thick branch” and the oligarch-governor’s deputy promised to hang
dissatisfied Russians of the East as soon as Crimea is pacified. Putin’s forces
came into the Crimea by virtue of an international agreement (like the U.S.
has marines in Bahrain) secured Crimea’s airports and roadblocks provided
necessary support to the volunteers of the Crimean militia (called Self Defense
Forces). The Crimean parliament asserted its autonomy and promised a plebiscite
in a month time. We know that most Crimeans in the polls declared Crimea’s
independence as the Crimean Parliament has done. The poll’s results were
spectacular: 96% of the votes were for joining Russia; the level of
participation was unusually high – over 84%. Not only ethnic Russians, but
ethnic Ukrainians and Tatars voted for reunification with Russia as well. A
symmetrical poll in Russia showed over 90% popular support for reunification
with Crimea despite fear mongering. Putin has celebrated this event. Russia is
not perfect, but Russia is not wrong in having the right to condemn a puppet
pro-EU Kiev state. The neocons have tried to justify the Kiev coup with folks
like Robert Kagan (or the husband of Victoria Nuland), John McCain, etc.
Alexander Yakimenko is the head of Ukrainian Secret Services (SBU) who had
escaped to Russia like his president. Yakimenko accused Andriy Parubiy, the
present security czar, of making a deal with the Americans. On American
instructions, he delivered weapons and brought snipers who killed some 70
persons within few hours. They killed the riot police and the protesters as
well. The US Neocon-led conspiracy in Kiev was aimed against the European
attempt to reach a compromise with President Yanukovych, said the SBU chief.
They almost agreed on all points, but Ms. Nuland wanted to derail the agreement.
Many Russians in the Ukraine, etc. don’t wish to experiment discrimination at
all.

Tons of folks are correct that we must
oppose the agenda of the plutocrats. They have harmed the environment,
brutalized our Brothers and Sisters, scapegoated the poor, disrespected the
unemployed, and manipulated the elderly in a cruel fashion. We realize as we
get older, that true wealth is not found in select interests, but in the
commonwealth. The fight for the cooperative society will continue. We need
mutual cooperation as a means to solve our problems. Now, these activists have
every right to create a petition as a means to establish a strong Ohio Voters
Bill of Rights. Our voting rights have been harmed in the past and in the
present with the events of the 2000 election (and other events). Now, the
problems with many Voter ID laws are numerous. Some have error filled voter
purge databases. Some restrict the days on when human beings can vote. Some
limit the amount of IDs that one can utilize as a means to vote. There is no
massive voter fraud crisis in the States, so the reactionaries are wrong to
assume that such laws are totally without political intent (when gerrymandering
will exist as a product of such regressive measures). Health care is important
to promote. The following words that I saw show the total truth that the final
goal of universal health care is not yet realized. There are many strengths and
weaknesses found in the ACA. Many people will benefit from the law and others
will still suffer. The most important thing now is to fully understand the
ACA's strengths and weakness, so we can promote more improvements involving our
health care now and in the future. So, we are still fighting for the betterment
of our health care not an elimination of even the legitimate parts of the ACA.
I wish for those that need affordable, strong health care to receive it. Many
religious people back thousands of years ago including early Christians
followed socialist communalism (and they thought this was consistent with their
spiritual ideals). One notes that in the second chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles, it is written: "They devoted themselves to the teachings of the
apostles and to COMMUNAL LIFE....All who believed were together and had all
things in common; they would sell their property and possessions and divide
them among all according to each one's need." These words were long before
the teachings of Karl Marx. These words were from the apostle Luke. Even Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. believed that it was possible for America to embrace a
democratic socialism and he believed that true wealth is found in the
commonwealth. We see that back in the 1930’s how millions of libertarian
socialist peasants and workers risked their lives to fight Franco’s fascist
falagnist. The workers wanted to establish a free, cooperative society. Folks
have the right to advocate a working class democracy. There are many democratic
socialists, libertarian socialists, and other revolutionaries who fought for
the truth.

The list of folks that
you have mentioned are known for their extremism, bigotry, hatred of
ideological diversity, etc. Additionally, they embrace views antithetical to the true
interests of black people, the poor, the elderly, oppressed people in the
world, women, etc. You will notice that the leadership of the GOP will never
overtly condemn the disturbing statements made by Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter,
Nugent, and others. The reality that you have shown is certainly one of the
many reasons why we will never support the reactionary GOP political party.
Have a Great Weekend. I respect Denzel Washington's underrated movies too like
Steve Biko and the Preacher's Wife (when he plays an angel and tries to set
things right in the community) too. Yes, Hollywood is very racist. Many talented
Brothers and Sisters are in there, but (un)Holly(weird) should not be our
salvation. Long term, we ought to develop our own movie production companies,
our own movies ruled by us, etc. in a higher level. Lupita N'yongo is a very
beautiful, talented Sister. I think that one great thing that she did was to
speak out openly against colorism and to inspire us to respect the image of
Dark Skinned black humanity for black is beautiful (among all skin tones).
Black Love is grand too. :) I hear what others are saying. Folks should have
recognized the beauty and diversity of black people from jump street. When the
white establishment puts a stand of approval on someone, then folks just jump
on the bandwagon when we should never be on a token bandwagon. We should just
respect black people as true human beings from the start. I wish the best for
the Sister Lupita. The good news is that more of our people know the truth.
With advances of the Internet, books, DVDs, and other multimedia, more and more
Brothers and Sisters realize what the deal is. When we appreciate our own being
excluding validation from others, then that is one step moving forward toward
that essential goal of black liberation. Also, we have to constantly educate
black youth on their value and their great dignity since the mainstream
corporate entertainment industry continues to peddle stereotypes and falsehoods
about black humanity. Our DNA, our great melanin, and our great BLACKNESS in
general are from the CREATOR. We are gifted and we are ONE BLACK AFRICAN PEOPLE
at the end of the day. We are still fighting for the quest for social and
economic justice. Our precious civil liberties should be maintained. Many human
beings have fought the totalitarian racial caste system of the South and we are
still fighting against imperialism and injustice today. Black people have every
right to get the concrete freedom of self-determination and economic justice.
Our society should be person oriented and not thing oriented as the late Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently stated. We need to reject imperial politics.
We need to establish a single payer national health care system. We need to
strengthen legitimate democratic unions in advancing solidarity not reactionary
propaganda at all. Economic rights should be extended to the working people and
the poor. Egalitarian ideals are a must to advance in the world.

The conflict in Ukraine
deals heavily with oil too. The West wants to control the Ukraine for
geopolitical reasons and to continue with the Western financial oligarchy. For
the past almost 13 years, we see war and rampage coming about in Central Asia
and the Middle East (where those regions have ruined and anarchy). The U.S.
military juggernaut has found a serious complication with Crimea. There is a
Russia Black Sea Fleet there. Crimea is a location that must pass if it wants
to extend it bases all over Eurasia, seize control of vital pipeline corridors
and resources. The West wants to create itself as the dominant
military/economic power player in the new century. Moscow now is not
withdrawing from the Crimea or relinquishing control of its critical military
outpost in Sevastopol. Crimea has been invaded by the Cimmerians, Bulgars,
Greeks, Scythians, Goths, Huns, Khazars, Ottomans, Turks, Mongols, and Germans.
We see that the Council on Foreign Relations and other think tanks want U.S.
foreign policy to reign supreme in the world. The War on terror has been very
harsh. It has eviscerated our civil liberties and advances a globalized agenda
where only select corporate CEOs and bored bankers wanted to control most of
the wealth of the world. The Russian Army knows how to defend themselves, so
massive invasion of Russian forces will not happen. The perma hawk John McCain
wants America to take the gloves off when dealing with Putin. Massive sanctions
against Moscow will cause massive consequences. We know that ExxonMobil’s
biggest non-U.S. oil project is a collaboration with Russia’s Rosneft in the
Arctic with billions of dollars of investments at stake. Russia can retaliate
by eliminate that contract. Sergei Glazyev, the most hardline of Putin’s
advisors, sketched the retaliation strategy. He wants Russia to drop the
dollar, sell U.S. Treasuries, and encourage Russian companies to default on
their dollar dominated debts. These actions along with an alternative currency
system with the BRICS including Venezuela and Iran (hydrocarbon producers) will
harm the American economy. Washington is acting reckless with its imperialism.
Author Nafeez Ahmed expands on that theme in a “must read” article in Monday’s
Guardian. Check out this brief excerpt from Ahmed’s piece titled “Ukraine
crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry”: “Ukraine is
increasingly perceived to be critically situated in the emerging battle to
dominate energy transport corridors linking the oil and natural gas reserves of
the Caspian basin to European markets… Considerable competition has already
emerged over the construction of pipelines. Whether Ukraine will provide
alternative routes helping to diversify access, as the West would prefer, or
‘find itself forced to play the role of a Russian subsidiary,’ remains to be
seen.” (Guardian). So, the Western oil giants want more resources in the
Ukraine. The Ukrainian President Yanukovych rejected the EU deal in favor of
Putin’s sudden offer of a 30 percent cheaper gas bill and a 15 billion dollar
package. The Ukraine has domestic gas woes, energy, food, and other consumer
bills. Later, police brutality used to suppress what began as peaceful
demonstrations was the last straw. So, oil has much to do with the rioting, the
coup, and the Russia/USA conflict. The lust for Eurasian energy resources
continues. Wall Street is heavily linked to Big Oil. Zbigniew Brzezinski
characterized the conflict with Russia in terms of cutting off “Western access
to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.” So, we see that the lust for resources is
linked to Western imperialism.

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